Hi rg66,
Just for reference, is the main sfs file (puppy_lina_1.1.sfs) the same for Carolite and Carolina (both non-PAE of course)?
Thanks,_________________Pups currently in kennel X-slacko 2.3.2n and 3b6, LxpupTahr 15.02 non-PAE, and trusty Carolina/Carolite (now battleshooters 1.3-vanguard edition R2). All lean and steady pups. Oh, and Lx flavours of unicornpup for fun

Just for reference, is the main sfs file (puppy_lina_1.1.sfs) the same for Carolite and Carolina (both non-PAE of course)?
Thanks,

Hey Marv,

The main was modified a bit. I removed some wallpapers and a few apps but the main difference is that gconf and gnutls were moved to main so gvfs-smb works without the adrive. This will also happen to Carolina in v1.2_________________X-slacko-3b7 with Xfce-4.12.0 - X-slacko-2.3.2 - X-precise-2.4
X-slacko new repoX-precise/X-slacko

Thanks,
I'll swap the Carolite sfs in as my core for now for testing._________________Pups currently in kennel X-slacko 2.3.2n and 3b6, LxpupTahr 15.02 non-PAE, and trusty Carolina/Carolite (now battleshooters 1.3-vanguard edition R2). All lean and steady pups. Oh, and Lx flavours of unicornpup for fun

Speaking of sound, this thing is LOUD! (but that might be the VAIO) Also an easy fix to that issue

I've never had much luck with Frisbee as my network manager (I tend to go with SNS) -- perhaps it would be good to put the old Connect Wizard back in? Also, since I'm *used to* looking for the Connect Wizard, it was really unintuitive no to have Frisbee at least in the Menu. Doubly so because the idea of clicking the icon to set up networking will be foreign to Windblows users as well...

HardInfo isn't here, so I can't report detailed info on the hardware on this old heap...

Some good things --

My cardbus four-port USB2 hub works this is very good since the VAIO's original two ports are long since shot. (They were used to death!)

Performance is pretty decent overall. The system is remarkably responsive, although Firefox does seem to tax it, and Flash has a problem -- Firefox asks to install it, and YouTube wants to upgrade it. But it works anyways... confusing.

You're right, one of the splash screens is lina-1.0. Not sure how that got in there, I don't see it with frugal install so completely missed it.

There are two icon switchers, Control Panel > Desktop > Appearance > Icons tab is system icons, Control Panel > Desktop Icon Switcher is menu icons.

Hardinfo and flashplayer are not there, they can be dl'ed from the repo. It's not easy to get lina under 150mb and have everything everybody wants, it is a lite version after all.

1 GB RAM sounds ok but a 400Mhz CPU might be a bit weak, there's only one way to find out how well lite will run. I can't see it using much less resources than the full lina. LxTask: CPU-3% RAM-85mb at idle, with firefox running: CPU-10% RAM-160mb.

Thanks for the feedback._________________X-slacko-3b7 with Xfce-4.12.0 - X-slacko-2.3.2 - X-precise-2.4
X-slacko new repoX-precise/X-slackoLast edited by rg66 on Sun 24 Nov 2013, 08:32; edited 1 time in total

There are two icon switchers, Control Panel > Desktop > Appearance > Icons tab is system icons, Control Panel > Desktop Icon Switcher is menu icons.

I didn't see a way to switch icons with Appearance->Icons Tab. I was using the Desktop Icon Switcher. At any rate, the Desktop Icon Switcher didn't appear to even affect the menu IIRC.

rg66 wrote:

Hardinfo and flashplayer are not there, they can be dl'ed from the repo.

...if flashplayer's not there, then what's playing YouTube vids...? They *did* play!

rg66 wrote:

1 GB RAM sounds ok but a 400Mhz CPU might be a bit weak, there's only one way to find out how well lite will run.

Was thinking that myself -- particularly since VIA CPUs seem to be a bit weak to begin with, and the Eden line is their extra-low-power line for fanless computing. It's a bit like hitching a small dog to an oxcart, if you know what I mean but heck, I'll try it, you never know...

Just had an opportunity to run Carolite. Impressively fast and lightweight in all respects. BK was correct right from the start. There really isn't any point in burdening your masterpiece with loadsa bloatware when you've already done the hard work to provide an excellent PPM. Don't let this distro get confused with the wannabees we shall doubtless see again tomorrow on DWW with their Gb s of someone else's selections! In one of my applications I can confirm I was able to install your v10 FlashPlayer and watch BBC/iPlayer almost instantly. Well done, chaps.

I'm a little confused about the difference between Carolina and LinaLite - are they two separate versions? I just looked on page one and only see links for Carolina.

By the way - the Carolina homepage link at the very bottom of the first post is easily missed but the website it links to is delightful! Love the way the webpage links animate when you mouse over them. Very clever!
http://smokey01.com/carolina/pages/lina-index.html
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Hardinfo and flashplayer are not there, they can be dl'ed from the repo. It's not easy to get lina under 150mb and have everything everybody wants, it is a lite version after all.

lite is great for playing and setting up as you like it. Abiword, evince, gPicView added to main SFS. Fonts, themes, locales pruned and customized a bit. Changed the compression in line 32 in dir2sfs to

Code:

[ $? = 0 ] && COMP="-comp xz -b 524288 -Xbcj x86"

and presto... main sfs at 68Mb. That's my minimal core for now, all else is shared in the boot directory or in SFS for loading as needed. GREAT set of rightclick tools for doing all that by the way I don't have anything slower than my Pentium Ms to throw it at but It certainly is totally usable on them. It's subjective, but I don't feel any additional load due to xfce4.10 vs openbox/lxpanelx or openbox/tint2 on that class of machine or up. The only glitches I've encountered so far are mine.. where my older save file masked changes made in Thunar rightclicks etc. Pretty simple to iron out. This is a good one indeed._________________Pups currently in kennel X-slacko 2.3.2n and 3b6, LxpupTahr 15.02 non-PAE, and trusty Carolina/Carolite (now battleshooters 1.3-vanguard edition R2). All lean and steady pups. Oh, and Lx flavours of unicornpup for fun Last edited by Marv on Sun 24 Nov 2013, 20:16; edited 1 time in total

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